More we're going to ban Macaracs b*llocks.

Steamboat Willie is about to enter Public Domain.

I'm surprised Disney didn't do their usual trick of making a sh*t live action version of it to hold onto the copyright.

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Mary Poppins film age rating raised over 'discriminatory language'

The 1964 film has been reclassified from a U, which stands for universal, to a PG, for parental guidance.

In it, a derogatory term originally used by white Europeans about nomadic peoples in southern Africa is used to refer to soot-faced chimney-sweeps.

That now "exceeds our guidelines" for U films, the BBFC said.

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"Mary Poppins (1964) includes two uses of the discriminatory term 'hottentots'.

"While Mary Poppins has a historical context, the use of discriminatory language is not condemned, and ultimately exceeds our guidelines for acceptable language at U. We therefore classified the film PG for discriminatory language."

The Oxford English Dictionary says the term, which referred to the Khoikhoi and San people, is "generally considered both archaic and offensive".

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-68402362

Mary Poppins really should have told those who used the term to "educate yourself".

She was obviously part of the problem.

Isn't "h*ttentots" mentioned in I Don't Care by Shakespears Sister? That'll be next to have a warning, get edited or deleted on streaming sites.

Yet another reason to keep hold of all your old DVDs, videos, CDs and vinyl. And tapes.

Butterfield wrote:

Isn't "h*ttentots" mentioned in I Don't Care by Shakespears Sister?

It is.

It's mentioned in the Cowardly Lion's song in The Wizard of Oz as well.

There's a film out at the moment called Combat Wombat.

I desperately wish I’d gone to the Willy Wonka Experience in Glasgow. It looks like the kind of thing I’d enjoy.

Years ago, there was a Christmas wonderland in Dorset or Sussex that looked equally great - which ended up with some parents having a fist fight with drunken elves while children sobbed and Santa screamed at them all. I’ve always wished I’d been there too.

That looks amazing.

I think that there's another, more mysterious character who's been identified too.

The 'Unknown' I think.

This Yahoo new page seems to have it covered.

https://ca.news.yahoo.com/extended-footage-gives-us-most-185506971.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly9zZWFyY2guYnJhdmUuY29tLw&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAABWw4v7K2P_peMUn37d2vxfzvHOvAzetiiPIzhJoP-flHg72GuLX-lHD5ODqa3utXNGWacNelh6RU6U2iJMc_GwpnOjA_wjBxSy_SGNNniFduPsR0W5scrAjsmaIxNd5jKLgSPXtFwJk-WL2yCUk4VzWZDg4MLW2GpN376zW53ik

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Horror film Late Night With the Devil takes $666,666 on Sunday in the US

The found-footage film took a suspiciously satanic number on a spooky weekend at the US box office that saw Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire top the charts

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2024/mar/25/horror-film-late-night-with-the-devil-takes-666666-on-sunday-in-the-us

That's movie I went to see at an actual cinema last week as well.